plaidé

\ple.de\

/\ple.de\/ verb

The verdict

“plaidé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,650
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de plaider.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plaide · plaidé · French

plaidé · rank #22,650 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,650
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pesait

Nearest frequency peer: pesait (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaidé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plaidé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plaidé vs plie
50% similar
plaidé vs pluie
50% similar
plaidé vs plait
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plaidé
PropertyValue
Headwordplaidé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ple.de\
Letters6
Frequency rank#22,650
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaidé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plaidése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pesait » (#22,649), « poilu » (#22,651), « persistante » (#22,648). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plaidé » est au #22,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around plaidé (IPA \ple.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,650 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de plaider.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaidé, with forms such as "lpaidé", "palidé", and "pladié". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plie", "pluie", "plait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plaidé, spelled P-L-A-I-D-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de plaider.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how plaidé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Géhenné dans mille questions de gouvernement comme est le jugement d’un vieil avocat après avoir tout plaidé, son esprit ne possédait plus ce vif que gardent les esprits solitaires, ni cette prompte décision des gens accoutumés de bonne heure à l’action, et qui se distingue chez les jeunes militaires.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpaidé
  • palidé
  • pladié
  • plaiddé
  • plaide
  • plaiéd
  • pliadé
  • pllaidé
  • pplaidé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaidé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

lpaidé2palidé2pladié2plaiddé1plaide1plaiéd2pliadé2pllaidé1
Edit distance from "plaidé"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plaidé"?
"plaidé" is spelled P-L-A-I-D-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ple.de\.
What does "plaidé" mean?
As a verb, "plaidé" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de plaider.
What words are commonly confused with "plaidé"?
"plaidé" is commonly confused with "plie", "pluie", "plait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plaidé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plaidé" is \ple.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plaidé" come from?
"plaidé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaidé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list